Saturday, 10 September 2011

Spanish salvage vessel Kangeru built by the yard Conrad at Haarlem, Netherlands

Computer line drawing by Alexander van Maanen, 2010


Ordered by the Spanish minister of navy D. Augusto Miranda and laid down in 1915, launched 1917 and since then lying at Amsterdam caused by a law suit. The main crane had a lifting capacity of 650 tons from a maximum depth of 40m. Dimensions 84 x 20 x 6m, distance between both hulls 8 meter, height hulls 3,5 without a submarine and 3,37m with a submarine. Her displacement was 2.480 ton. The range with a speed of 8,67 knots was 2.448 nautical miles and 1.266 nautical miles with 9,57 knots. The crew numbered 97 men.